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ARTICLE: Miraculous Breakthrough in Accuracy - Here's the Secret

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Breakthrough in Handgun Accuracy: One Simple "Trick"

First, let's talk about one of the most significant problems causing marksmanship and accuracy problems for many shooters, many more than would either care to admit it or even realize it. It sneaks up on you so gradually you just kind of get used to it. I'll give you the problem and solution right away and if you want to read more and read about my "miracle" yesterday, keep on going. I'm so excited about it I can hardly stand it.

SUMMARY

Here is the problem: PRESBYOPIA

Here is the solution:



Presbyopia is the normal loss of near focusing ability that occurs with age. Most people begin to notice the effects of presbyopia sometime after age 40, when they start having trouble seeing small print clearly - including text messages on their phone. You can't escape presbyopia, even if you've never had a vision problem before. Even people who are nearsighted will notice that their near vision blurs when they wear their usual eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct distance vision The eye's lens hardens with age, resulting in blurred near vision. This is called presbyopia.The eye's lens stiffens with age, so it is less able to focus when you view something up close.



What impact does this have on handgun accuracy? The less you are able to see objects in sharp focus the less you will be able to get a super sharp front sight focus and accurate sight picture. Again, it sneaks up on you and many just think, "Oh, well, I can get along with it ok." WRONG.

Now, what is the "miracle breakthrough" ... eye protection that has full lens magnification, not partial lens magnification, not bifocal, but full lens magnification. Yesterday I brought out to the range a pair of full frame magnified lenses and the results were nothing short of, miraculous, for me. I've been training for years and have been doing "ok" but ... after all these years of intense training my mechanics were improving, but my eyesight was declining, so I was not getting the kind of tight groups I was always chasing, and I was unable to get rounds decently on targets from 25 yards and beyond. Until yesterday.

Yesterday with the glasses I'm going to tell you about I was able to put every round into an 8" target from 25 yards, very consistently and at closer distances, I was able to get ragged single holes in the bullseye, it was, simply "miraculous." Why? I could finally see a super sharp front sight and an in focus sight picture!

Now, the good news is this, when you use magnified lenses you do NOT have to get the same strength you may be using for reading glasses, in fact, you should not, since you are looking at something at arms length to begin with, you need less magnification, so I bought a 1x magnification and I'm going to get .5 magnification to see how that works as well.

At the end of the day, I backed up and was banging my 12"x20" steel target from 35 yards, center mass, and could even place shots at top and bottom at will.

So needless to day I left the range more joyful than I have been in a VERY long time. All that training has paid off for me and I've got grip and trigger manipulation down, and with that sharp front sight focus, the rounds are actually going where I intend them to go.

Here is where you can buy them on Amazon, very inexpensively. Note: You can buy them in various power magnification. Buy at least .5 under what you wear right now to read comfortably. I'm still experimenting with the right power for my eyes, but right now the 1x is working fantastically well.
 
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#2 ·
I use safety glasses from Duluth Trading Co. that has readers built into them. Last time I looked you could get the readers on either the upper or lower half and up to +4.0.

Gaz
 
#3 ·
Right, I've used those, but the ones I'm recommending have the magnification across the entire lens, so no odd head tilting, etc. I much prefer the full frame magnification. And again, the key is get a magnification up to a whole level **below** what your readers normally are.
 
#4 ·
I understand what you are saying. My eyes are only starting to get this way and can still the front site just fine when my arm is extended. I plan on converting my main shooters and edc pistols to red dots.

Gaz
 
#6 ·
Before you invest in red dots, you might want to try a very low magnification power full frame shooting glasses, they sell these at .5 magnification. I think you will enjoy it very much and you might be surprised at how, right now, you are able to get a better sight picture.
 
#5 ·
I have been wearing prescription glasses for many years and have watched my numbers change as my eyes did.

Readers/Magnifies are great and dandy, but consider this, your eyes are the only ones you get, do you really want to self prescribe vision adjustments from a one size fits all chart or do you think it is worth going to a real optometrist for a eye exam and professional direction ?
 
#9 ·
Not sure what the ballistic rating on the above glasses is...

I've used Rudy's full frame prescription glasses for shooting for several years... My dominant eye is focused on the front sight and my other eye uses a normal, distance vision prescription... It takes a bit of getting used to, but it works well for iron sights.

Using a red dot sight is even better though... Since everything is target focus with a red dot, standard glasses with your distance prescription in both eyes works perfectly.
 
#10 ·
Vanity even @ the age of 62, I wear no line bifocals, and the plastic they are made of is tough, I have dropped them lens down on the sidewalk and it did not hurt the lens, not sure how much more ballistic protection is needed.

I want to invest in a pair of shooting only glasses, as the blow by and other junk ejected will pit the lenses, I weld and learned the hard way a long time ago, that when the fire pops it emits small particles that will pit the plastic and real glass, same concept when holding an iron in front of your face and pulling the trigger.

Any eye protection is better than NO eye protection !
 
#11 ·
Those drove me crazy. Specially looking down at the golf ball on the tee. I already have a hard enough time hitting the damn thing.
But everybody's eyes are different and yes something is better than nothing for eye protection.

Gaz
 
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